11. August 2021

This article has been indexed from Lawfare

Vice President Kamala Harris, then a senator and presidential candidate, speaking at a forum in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/2ekDc92; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2)

Soon after Joe Biden chose California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate in the summer of 2020, the rash of attacks began. There was the typical rhetoric of then-President Trump on display in his calling her “nasty,” “disrespectful” and “phony.” There were also conspiracy theories about Harris’s parents’ immigration status and her eligibility for higher office, disingenuous and strategic questions about her Black identity, and stereotyped expectations of her racial and gender identity. 


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